Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained.
- transitive verb To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use.
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- noun A
supply of something kept safe forfuture use. - verb To
accumulate a stockpile.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have on hand
- noun a storage pile accumulated for future use
- noun something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
Etymologies
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Examples
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His stockpile is rivaled only by the personal stash of George Lucas himself.
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Most likely what occurs is, that the stockpile is sold off after a certain amount of time and repurchased at the same time, to keep the amount consistent.
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Soviet stockpile is also a tremendous one, perhaps one-third or one-half as large as the U.S. stockpile.
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Now they aren't doing all this on only $1,500 a year -- they're really doing it on $2,700 a year ($1,500 plus what they call their "stockpile" -- an amount of food, etc. that they started with that's valued at $1,200.)
Free Money Finance 2009
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According to U.S. and Pakistani officials, there is no way a complete nuclear weapon can be taken from Islamabad's stockpile, which is protected by about 10,000 of the Pakistani military's most elite troops.
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It's true, as experts testified last week, that the computer modeling the United States would use in place of nuclear tests -- called stockpile stewardship -- is not flawless.
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My milk stockpile, which is all carefully dated and organized into tuppware containers, takes up about 90% of our freezer space.
Ready for armageddon ScienceMama 2007
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GERBERDING: Well, the stockpile is a mechanism to give manufactures an incentive to increase their production.
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In the light of the experiences of the residents of Macassar, the continued presence of the stockpile was a source of great concern and fear for the community.
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"There's going to be a lot of lives lost," said Mimi Sheridan, referring to the stockpile of petrol and gas canisters they planned to use against the bailiffs when the time came.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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